Pocket-guard



C. H, LONG.

POCKET GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5, 1918.

Patented J une 15, 1920.

31402 ntoz un/Imam dttozmz 1 warren STATES CHARLES H. LONG, OF CEDARRAPIDS, IOWA. I

POCKET-GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 5, 1918. Serial No. 215,506. 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. LONG, a

I citizen of the United States, residing at Cedar Rapids, in the countyof Linn and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Pocket-Guard,of which the following is y a specification.

This invention relates to a pocket guard whereby papers and likecontents of a pocket can be held in position without falling from thepocket and becoming lost.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter which is cheap to manufacture and which can be placed readilyin position for use, the said device being foldable downwardly into thepocket and out of view when not in use.

With the foregoing and other objects in View which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details ofconstruction and combinations of'parts which will be hereinafter morefully described and pointed out in the claims, it being understood thatchanges may be made in the arrangement and proportions of the partswithout departing from the spirit of the invention as set forth in theappended claims.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention hasbeen shown.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of a pocket having thepresent improvements applied thereto, the guard being shown in use.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of oneof the members of the guard.

Fig. 4 is a detail View of the other mem- V ber of the guard.

Referrin to the figures by characters of reference, 3 designates aportion of a gar- 'ment having a pocket B in which the guardconstituting the present invention is adapted to be placed. The saidguard includes a relatively long strip of leather or fabric indicated at1 and which is adapted to be fastened at one end by a pin 2 or the like,or by sewing, to the inside of the pocket 13 at the back thereof.'Another shorter strip 3 is adaptedto be similarly fastened to theinside of the pocket at the frontthereof. The free end portions of thetwo strips are. pro- PATENT oFric v Patented. June 15,1920.

vided with the members of a snap fastener or other suitable form ofsecuring means, and which have been illustrated at After the lower endsof the two strips have been fastened .-.-in' the pocket. at the pointsand in the manner described,the papers, wallet or the like to be held,is placed in the pocket and the upper end of the long strip 1 is thenfolded over'said object, indicated generally at C, and the members ofthe fastener 4L placed in engagement with each other. Thus the article 0willjbe held securely and cannot be removed without first unfasteningthe members 4 from What is claimed is l. A pocket guard comprisingflexible strips of different lengths adapted to lap at one end, meansupon the lapping ends of the strips for detachably connecting themtogether, and means carried by the other ends of the strips fordetachably securing I each other.

them to the front and back portions respectively of a pocket, both ofsaid strips being separate from but adaptedto contact with and retain anarticle within the pocket.

2; The combination with the pocket of a garment, of relatively long andshort flexi- CHARLES H. LONG. v Witnesses: I 4

' H. D. CONE, V R. L. MAUTZ.

